child labour

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Children have no limits to their dreams, and no barriers or restrictions in their minds. These five kids, emboldened by their education, show that sometimes the biggest lessons can come from the youngest people.

Growing up in a destitute environment can be hard and soul-crushing for any young boy or girl. However, this young girl has refused to let her spirits be bowed down by her background, and is dreaming big dreams for her future.

When Anoyara Khatun was rescued as a child labourer in 2007, she decided to make sure that no other child in West Bengal suffers the same fate.

The Balmitras are trained as part of a Government of Maharashtra's Women and Child Development (WCD) department and UNICEF intervention, initiated in November 2014, which focuses on preventing unsafe seasonal migration of children for sugarcane harvesting.

This organisation helps victims of child labour, domestic violence, physical abuse, and discrimination, rescuing them and helping them reintegrate with society.

Financial conditions forced Purvi work as a child labourer. Today, she has risen above her circumstances to help create awareness about child rights among the children in her village.

Underprivileged at-risk children and child labourers in the Kashmir valley are slowly getting the opportunity to gain an education again.

“My father dropped me to my first workplace. I could never tell him how much I wanted him to drop me to a school instead,” says Mohsin, who is struggling to go to school and dreams of a better life.

Bachpan Bachao Andolan was established by Kailash Satyarthi and others in 1980 with a vision to end the problem of child labour. It soon became a mass movement that identified, liberated, rehabilitated, and educated child labourers across the country.